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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Ugress

Ugress. Norwegian, pretty much a one man band. Awesome music. Lots of free samples, but I've just paid a big overprice on their newest, because he's given me so much over the years.

This is also a tribute to the power of giving-away-material-for-free marketing. Four or five years ago I got a few of their songs from a friend, including "Decepticons", and as I listened to them over the months, I liked them better and better. 
He has an interesting model, he is giving away the latest "EP" for free at 128k encoding, and selling it in 320k encoding. I think that works. 
If it were me, though, I'd throw in a bonus track for buyers, since the difference is so slight otherwise. (And maybe delete the $10 minimum price, it seems silly since you can get the thing for free anyway.)
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3 comments:

  1. Timo Lehtinen21 Mar 2009, 02:51:00

    Brilliant! I've never heard of the band, but I'm blown away by the videos (including music). Thanks!

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  2. Eolake Stobblehouse21 Mar 2009, 03:12:00

    Goody. Seems it pays off to blog something more than once if I really like it.

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  3. Unknown24 Mar 2009, 11:14:00

    Thanks Eolake!
    I did have some Ugress in my library but had never given it the attention it deserved.
    Truly fantastic stuff.

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